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About three hours after the car rammed protesters, a police helicopter crashed about seven miles from the scene, killing the two pilots inside.

Police reports said the helicopter, which was supervising the protests, crashed in a wooded area and no one on the ground was injured.

Lt. Jay Cullen, 48, and Trooper-Pilot Berke Bates, 40, were identified as the two pilots killed in the crash.

The governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, said his only message for the white supremacists and neo-Nazis that brought chaos to Charlottesville is to ‘go home’.

Before the death of a 32-year-old woman was confirmed, Charlottesville mayor Michael Signer said he was disgusted to see white nationalists descend on his town, going on to blame Donald Trump for inflaming racial prejudices during his presidential campaign last year.

Mr Signer said: ‘I’m not going to make any bones about it. I place the blame for a lot of what you’re seeing in America today right at the doorstep of the White House and the people around the president.’

The FBI has now opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly crash.

Vehicle hurls protesters into the air (Picture: Faith Goldy with Rebel Media/via Reuters)

Medics help an injured woman after a car (Picture: AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Members of the clergy at the local church could be seen linking arms in a bid to block one of the entrances to the park, while alt-right protesters chanted ‘White lives matter’ as they marched through.

Pictures from the protests showed white supremacists holding torches in the air and chanting slogans such as ‘one people, one nation, end immigration’ as they clashed with anti-fascism protesters.